A man screamed out for his dying fiancée and young son after their car lost control on a bend and hit another car head on, an inquest heard.

Woking Coroner's Court ruled that Nicola Morris, 29, and Kai Arnold, 11, died after she "swerved" into an oncoming car in Banstead Road, Ewell, at 10.30am on Saturday, July 5 last year.

The cause of death was recorded as an accident. Five family members and a baby, who were in the other car, were also badly injured.

Nursery nurse Ms Morris, her fiance David Arnold and Kai were going to meet her best friend and another son Alfie, who had been on a sleepover, at the Toby Carvery in Ewell.

Builder Mr Arnold said the road was wet but the sun had come out, they had driven down that road "thousands of times" before and were going at no more than 35 mph. The limit is 30 mph.

He said: "We then went round a left-hand bend. The back of the car swung out to the right so Nicola tried to correct it by steering to the right.

"The car then seemed to lose control and we went back into our lane before going back into the opposite lane and we had a head-on with the car travelling in the other lane.

"It all happened so quickly, yet so slowly at the same time."

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Scaffolder Daniel Miller, who was travelling in the opposite direction, looked back and saw the family’s silver Ford Fiesta crash into a black Ford Focus.

He said: "The back ends of the cars went up into the air. I said, ‘They have crashed’."

He shouted for his business partner to stop the transit truck, got out, ran over to the smoking Fiesta and dragged Mr Arnold out.

Mr Miller said: "I laid him on the grass on the Ewell-bound side of the road. He was conscious and talking. He said, 'my legs are hurting.' He was screaming, 'my son'."

Mr Miller said he got the boy out of the car, adding: "Dave was screaming, 'my missus'."

He then pulled Ms Morris out of the driver's footwell and laid her next to them. The mother and boy were given CPR.

He said: "I just stood there with Dave, holding his leg. He was asking, "How is my missus? How is my son? Are they going to be alright?"

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Mr Arnold's leg, wrist, finger and ribs were broken while his shoulder, ankle, neck and nerves in his leg and arm were injured. He also suffered trauma.

To begin with Mr Miller and his business partner Tony Holder did not realise that they actually knew Mr Arnold.

Mr Holder saw the Fiesta go past them "looking like it had lost control" with its wheel appearing to come off the ground as it went round the bend.

He said: "After the accident, we got the front seat passenger out, Dave. We didn’t realise there was anyone else in the car apart from the driver, until he said, ‘my boy’."

Mr Holder rang the emergency services and checked on other casualties including three lying on the ground.

Later he noticed a pothole at one point where the Fiesta had seemed to "jut out" before the crash.

Engineer Weicher Feng was travelling in the other car from his home in Putney to Lavender Fields in Banstead along with his parents, two sisters and baby daughter Sophie.

He said: "I saw a car (a Fiesta) come round the corner, and as it was coming around the corner it seemed to lose control.

"The car appeared to be going very fast, over 30 miles per hour."

He said the car went into their lane, out again, back in and hit them.

He said: "There was no time for my father to swerve or brake at all. It happened so fast."

He said he might have briefly lost consciousness but then checked on his daughter and helped his mother out of the car.

He was discharged from hospital three days later after treatment for seat-belt injuries, bruising and a fracture.

His daughter had fractured vertebrae, and he said: "She is having ongoing care for that. She may need to have further operations for this, but time will tell."

His mother had a fractured leg and elbow and his father had a punctured small intestine, dislocated finger and fractured vertebrae.

One of his sisters had swollen leg tissue and the other had a fractured shoulder.

Another driver, Sue Braysher, stopped to help. She said: "I spent some considerable time with the Malaysian family until they were seen by the emergency services, I also looked after their baby for some time."

A police constable said Ms Morris was pronounced dead at the scene and Kai was pronounced dead at hospital.

The documentary inquest was heard on January 30. Assistant coroner Dr Karin Englehurst ruled that Nicola died from chest injuries and Kai died from multiple injuries.